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Recruiter, please take notice!

I am not currently looking to entertain any new employment at this time. I appreciate that you think that you know the perfect position for me, but you truly don't. I would really enjoy not having to ask you to never contact me again about some 3, 4, 6, 12, 18, or more month non-JavaScript developer position anywhere in the world.

I will contact the companies that I am interested in, on my own. I am plenty capable of speaking with my future employers on my own and deciding what is the correct decision for my situation.

Coding Kata

12 March 2014

Kata are exercises that are meant to convert deliberate actions into muscle memory. They are exercises to help you become more natural at a given action. Simply completing an action is not the goal of a Kata, one must repeatedly practice to convert action to in-action; the very zen statement "do nothing" does not mean to simply be lazy.

Doing the same problem repeatedly will become boring quickly and soon after most people will falter in continuing to practice. Variety is the spice of life - or so they say, whoever "they" are - so in that vein here are some good Kata to work on frequently to get better at programming. For bonus points, do them in multiple different languages. The more languages and programming paradigms the better; bend and stretch your brain as much and often as possible.

Prime Factors - find the prime factors of a given number

Roman Numerals - convert a given number from decimal to Roman numerals

I have inspired a few friends and colleagues to join in a sharing of ideas between languages around Project Euler (https://github.com/kalisjoshua/euler); feel free to join in if you'd like. This has been a great experience of learning and encouragement; when I get tired of doing problems I am encouraged by others solving more problems than me, don't want to let them win the non-competition.